Carl Sagan, the astronomer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and legendary popularizer of science, gave this interview during the making of "Time Travel." True to form, he discusses arcane aspects ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan's work is key to two movies in theaters: Pixar's "Elio" and Mike Flanagan's "The Life of Chuck." ...

Interview With Carl Sagan Author, Astronomer NOVA: Speculate for a moment on the parts of human nature, the commonality of believing in abductions, or aliens anyway, and the part of human nature ...

A producer of Cosmos, Adrian Malone, vowed to “make Carl a star.” And indeed the show led to a surge in media and public attention paid to Sagan. Journalists reported on his personal life, writing ...

I just caught up on some of my RSS feeds and I was delighted to see that Hulu has posted all 13 episodes of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos online. Cosmos was a key factor in my interest of all things science.

Carl Edward Sagan was born on Nov. 9, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended college at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics in 1960, at the age of 26.

His childhood interest in aliens mirrors that of Sagan's, who told PBS's NOVA in a 1996 interview, "I personally have been captured by the notion of extraterrestrial life, and especially ...